CVE-2007-2833

N/A Unknown

Published: June 21, 2007 Modified: April 23, 2026

Description

Emacs 21 allows user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via certain crafted images, as demonstrated via a GIF image in vm mode, related to image size calculation.

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=408929

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://secunia.com/advisories/26987

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1316

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:133

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_19_sr.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24570

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018277

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-504-1

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1490

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=408929